3 Books on Food from 2010
Grist.org's food section asked 20 or so notable people to share their favorite books from 2010 . The articled pointed out that: Two brand-new books did stand out for a number of our folks: Paul Greenberg's ultimately hopeful lament for the troubled oceans, Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food ; and Jan Poppendick's Free for All: Fixing School Food in America , a rigorous, highly charged history of public school lunches. Both are very much books of the moment. My list includes no books that were published in 2010, but those that I read during the year. The Food Wars (Verso 2009) by Walden Bello is a wide critique of the food industry's profit motives throughout the world. It's a heavyweight that weighs in at 149 pages. He sets up and debunks common myths, such as the causes of the "food crisis" of 2006-2008, benefits of the "green revolution," as well as taking readers on a history of how monetary policy and trade agreements have impac...